Greek Mythology

Recently I purchased a few of Jim Weiss' story-tellings on CD (http://www.greathall.com/). Julia has loved audiobooks for some time now and she insists she needs them to fall asleep at night. Jim Weiss has dozens of CDs from Aesop's Fables to Shakespeare for kids to American folktales, etc, etc. One of the CDs I bought was Greek Mythology partly because we were about to begin learning about ancient Greece. She listened to that particular CD several times, but one night last week as I was tucking her in at night she came alive telling me how wonderful the Greek myths were. She told me that I really should listen to them myself. She said, "They're like history." So I asked her to retell some of the myths to me and her eyes came alive. She told me (and later John too) detail after detail about the Greek Gods and Godesses. She has a good idea of who is married to who and who is the child of who and that sort of thing. She was buzzing with excitement and amazement.

So, playing up on her new interest in Greece I reminded her that she and I have some Greek ancestry. And I also told her that Gma's name is Athena. She was hugely impressed with that. So next week we jump into studying Greece. Looking ahead I see some fun activities to finish up our school year. We may even end with she and I trying out some of Gma's famous Greek recipes. I love it when I get to see her so excited over something (other than cats!). Now, if only I could foster this much enthusiasm for math....